All posts tagged "1960s"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
January 9, 2025Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse’s Time’s All Gone
January 3, 2025There is the distinctly unnerving sensation of both familiarity and newness; the sound of another era...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
December 24, 2024This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan
December 5, 2024We can never rediscover the true weirdness of the 1960s psychedelic movements without abandoning our own...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
November 26, 2024A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: True Believers by Kurt Andersen
November 24, 2024Nevertheless, Andersen’s willingness to digress, to reflect in Karen’s voice on the implications of her experiences...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The French Connection, #30
September 5, 2024New York City is more gritty than pretty in this period piece, which was shot before...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Point Blank, #81
July 14, 2024Walker just wants his money back. And he’ll go to anywhere and confront anyone to get...
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Art & Design
West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
June 12, 2024Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents...
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The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
March 1, 2024The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...